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Memcached and MySQL – What good is it?

Posted by John Adams on May 17th, 2009

I posted this in response to a post on GigaOM, but it was such a long comment, I felt that it was worthy as a post on it’s own.

The workloads of social networking sites fall mostly into the ‘read lots, write once’ class (most of the web exists within this paradigm.) Regardless of the database [...]

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Using GPS to enhance social networking

Posted by John Adams on February 13th, 2009

A bit of last-minute news, but I’ll be on a panel at SXSW Interactive: “Using GPS & Location to Enhance Social Networking”.
First there were social networks, and then there were location-based social networks, and now GPS and navigation-enhanced mobile social networks. This panel will explore how these emerging platforms integrate with existing social networks [...]

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Thanks, twitter followers.

Posted by John Adams on June 24th, 2008

Oh man, can you believe this?
So many followers, so quickly. Thanks for the love!

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Web 2.0 parties

Posted by John Adams on April 14th, 2008

Courtesy of juhani, here’s a listing of parties during next week’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
Original posting from http://www.xihalife.com/b/juhani/1540
I’m attending the Mashable/Chi.mp party, but that’s it so far.
List is duplicated below…

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Why twitter works.

Posted by John Adams on March 9th, 2008

.. or, the de-evolution and re-evolution of communication.
Online communications has had a strange and varied history. I remember chatting to multiple users at the same time on diversi-dial services back in the 80’s. These were essentially apple II computers, filled with modem cards so that up to *eight* people could talk to each other in [...]

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